Open Source Windows RSS Software

Glean is a self-hosted RSS reader and personal knowledge management platform designed to help information-heavy users efficiently aggregate, browse, and organize content from feeds. It centralizes RSS/Atom subscriptions, offering clean reading views, tagging, and organization features such as folders and bookmarks, while giving users full control over their data by deploying on their own infrastructure. Glean also includes real-time background synchronization, enabling feeds to update at regular intervals without manual refresh, and it supports importing and exporting subscription lists for portability. With a modern responsive UI and optional admin dashboard, Glean balances readability with lightweight performance, making it suited for both individual readers and teams. Its knowledge management capabilities are augmented by features like smart filtering, “read later” queues, and future plans for AI-driven summaries and preference-based recommendations.

iTorrent allows you to download BitTorrent podcasts from iTunes. It transforms BitTorrent podcasts so that you can update them just like any other podcast in iTunes.

The RSS feed for websites missing it.

Upvote RSS is a flexible, open-source tool for generating customizable RSS feeds from discussion platforms such as Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, Lobste.rs, PieFed instances, and GitHub activity. It works as a web application (often deployed with PHP or via Docker) that lets users build feeds with rich options — including summaries, scores, comments, and filtering — to tailor what content flows into their feed reader. Upvote-RSS gives fine control over how posts are selected and presented, and supports environment configuration for features like caching or integration with external APIs to enrich the output. Users can preview generated feeds before copying the RSS URL for consumption in any RSS reader, and advanced options allow filtering by posts per day, inclusion of full content, summaries, and comment limits.

RSS Builder is an easy to use program for creating and publishing news feeds and podcasts. You can use local RSS files, but there is also an option to edit the RSS feeds on your web site without keeping a local copy.

MagpieRSS is a simple, functional PHP inteface for parsing RSS 1.0 (and earlier versions). Built on PHP's XML (expat) parser, and with an integrated cache for storing the parsed RSS objects, Magpie is designed by simple, and 'PHP-like' to use.

Podcast Generator is an open source Content Management System written in PHP and specifically designed for podcast publishing. It provides the user with the tools to easily manage all of the aspects related to the publication of a podcast, from the upload of episodes to its submission to the iTunes store.

ssRSS (Super Simple RSS) is a lightweight rss creation tool, which runs on all Windows systems, does not require .NET or any other similar stuff. Based on original work by Hunter Davis (http://www.hunterdavis.com/)

Feed Launch .NET is an open-source feed editor for RSS 2.0 and ATOM 1.0 Feeds. Full graphical interface allows for seamless feed management and feed creation, including uploading feeds via FTP. Feeds are automatically saved in XML format. Project released under GPL.

Pulls eNews, eBuzz... for you to read, or stores for later reading. Portable, small (98KB, 5sec download), easy to learn & use. No Spam. Connects to sourceforge.net at startup.

Newsagent is an RSS feed aggregator that offers a combination of flexibility and simplicity. Built on an established plugin architecture (OSGi), Newsagent provides a solid base for building custom RSS-enabled applications.

A full-featured Multi-User ToDo List manager supporting RSS feeds, custom categories, and more.

R3R is a small, fast, and portable reader for RSS, ESF, and Atom feeds.

Simple RSS is an easy to use Java library to read and write RSS feeds. Currently supports RSS 2.0 and iTunes compliant feeds.

XFeed is a CGI/Perl program designed to develop RSS Feeds-supported XML documents. XML-DOM oriented simple suggestion to create your own RSS Feeds.

Search though multiple (configurable) information sources at once: results are presented side-by-side. Intended to support all information sources that implement OpenSearch, and more.

ARADO RSS Feed Reader is a URL Database for Websearch and RSS Feed Reading, which saves your added Bookmarks & RSS-Feeds and syncs newest URLs with your connected devices. Store and Search your all your URLs in ARADO. As framework c++ / Qt is used.

The article explains the design and the characteristics of a new open source content aggregation system. Among the features of the program, stands out a new processing engine of syndication channels, monitoring capability of information recovery in real time, the possibilities of the configuration of aggregator behavior, automatic classification of contents and new models for representation of information from relational interactive maps. On the other hand, the aggregation program, which named AXYZ, is designed to manage thousands of syndication channels of RSS format. Furthermore it also provides statistics that can be used to study the production of any producer subject and the impact of the information that published in other sources. The result that has been obtained in the research, allow to create modules capable of compare the relationship between different news or information from different sources, their degree of influence and their detection by the patterns.

Aggregated4 is an open-source, news aggregator. It is planned to [initially] support RSS (versions 0.9 to 2.0, and further if applicable), Atom (0.3 to 1.0, and further if applicable), and in subsequent releases podcast catching, Torrent downloads, etc.

Agrumelaire : An RSS Aggregator with Bayesian Learning System. Produces an RSS feed from a set of existing feeds. Items are categorized according to the reader's interests. Resulting feed is accessible from any standard RSS client application.

GTK# RSS aggregator [newsreader]

RSS Reader base on rich internet applications of flex.

A podcast aggregator written in Python using GTK. Users can subscibe to podcasts and download the latest episodes to their hard drive (iPod support is planned).

Automatically imports content items from various RSS feeds into your WordPress (2.0 or higher) site. Very configurable, easy to install, and fully automated -- it will keep your site updated with fresh content.

This is a simple RSS aggregator that displays incoming messages as balloon tooltip pop-ups in the windows task bar. The news entries themselves are linked to be read with the browser.